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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Knox” in the USA?

Number of people named “Knox” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Knox” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Knox” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Knox” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Knox” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Knox” by birth year

This chart shows how “Knox” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 -100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 -100%
1919 19 0.000009004 19 -100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 -100%
1921 22 0.000009424 22 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 21 -100%
1923 21 0.000009121 21 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1926 16 0.000006969 16 -100%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 -100%
1928 16 0.000007077 16 -100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 14 0.000006741 14 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 15 0.000004072 15 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 -100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 -100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 -100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 -100%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 -100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 -100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 -100%
2004 50 0.000013086 50 -100%
2005 48 0.000012484 48 -100%
2006 60 0.000015166 60 -100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 -100%
2008 93 0.00002366 93 -100%
2009 341 0.000089263 341 -100%
2010 579 0.000156667 579 -100%
2011 637 0.000174149 7 630 -98%
2012 822 0.000224752 822 -100%
2013 937 0.000257017 9 928 -98%
2014 1255 0.000338606 11 1244 -98%
2015 1417 0.000382879 14 1403 -98%
2016 1555 0.000423856 16 1539 -98%
2017 1658 0.000463621 18 1640 -98%
2018 1727 0.000491198 21 1706 -98%
2019 1581 0.000455497 19 1562 -98%
2020 1547 0.000463094 18 1529 -98%
2021 1760 0.000519488 23 1737 -97%
2022 1929 0.000570181 29 1900 -97%
2023 1803 0.000544516 22 1781 -98%
2024 1721 0.00051705 20 1701 -98%

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